About DMU

Founded in 1898, Des Moines University is a medical and health sciences university dedicated to improving lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

“Mucus, phlegm” in Latin. Ancient anatomists thought the pituitary produced the mucous secretions of the nose. The pituitary is a pea-sized gland hanging from a stalk on the undersurface of the brain. It is well protected in a bony depression, the sella turcica, in the floor of the cranial cavity. The gland is located near […]